Single Idea 1811

[catalogued under 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason]

Full Idea

Fifteenth mode: proofs often presuppose the thing to be proved.

Clarification

One of the 'modes of scepticism'

Gist of Idea

Proofs often presuppose the thing to be proved (Mode 15)

Source

report of Agrippa (fragments/reports [c.60]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 09.Py.10

Book Reference

Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.413